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When Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez was rumored to be gravely ill four years ago, his socialist government was tightlipped about the diagnosis. Then in June 2011 a source in Havana, Cuba, where Chávez was being treated, told Nelson Bocaranda, a veteran columnist for the Caracas daily El Universal, that the president had cancer.

Amid skyrocketing
inflation and shortages of basic goods, Venezuelan authorities claim that an
"economic war" is being waged against the socialist government of President
Nicolás Maduro. The government is striking back by forcing stores to discount
prices, by arresting business owners accused of hoarding--and by targeting
journalists trying to cover the grim economic news.